Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on June 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, difference, diversity, humanity, quotes, similarity, Thoughts on May 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“We talk so often about the differences between people, yet here in our country we find that, in spite of circumstances which create great differences, we have certain great similarities. Rich or poor, we want our children to be well educated. Rich or poor, we want them to do better than we have done. Rich or poor, we want the respect of our neighbors and perhaps their affection. Love and death come to us all, no matter what the circumstances of our lives. In the big things that matter, the similarities are far greater than the differences. If this is true at home it is true anywhere in the world. People want the same things. They strive for the same things. They suffer from the same things. The differences are important but often superficial. The basic things are similar.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, quotes, Thoughts on March 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
— Charles Dickens
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on December 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“I deal with writer’s block by lowering my expectations. I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent—and when you don’t, panic sets in. The solution is never to sit down and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent. I write a little bit, almost every day, and if it results in two or three or (on a good day) four good paragraphs, I consider myself a lucky man. Never try to be the hare. All hail the tortoise.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
If you can do more, great, but either way, keep going. You’ve got this.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on September 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
— Horace
Hope you have fun being a little silly today too.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, advice, life, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on September 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Light, water, kindness, and not giving up. These are huge; all there is.
— Anne Lamott
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on September 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
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Posted in Holidays, Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts on September 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
― Albert Einstein
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, first drafts, genre fiction, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?”
— Ray Bradbury
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on May 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
— Tennessee Williams
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J.R. Johnson 
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